The Brazilian coach lamented the absence of key players at the most difficult moment of the calendar, but made no excuses for the defeat
Jimbee Cartagena’s coach, Duda, was highly critical of his team’s play yesterday, especially because of everything he was up against defensively. “We conceded a lot of situations, a lot of goals through counter-attacks. Chemi’s exclusion is a loss, then losing the first goal and there’s a throw-in from 15 meters where we go to the ball with very little force,” he recalled.
Speaking of the second half, he specified: “We get into the game, we create chances and in two transitions they go up the scoreboard. Later on, in the five for four, we created a lot of chances and we didn’t score.
When asked about his team’s will, despite being way down the leaderboard, he was very powerful. “You can want it, but this sport is very competitive and it’s not all wanting. You have to think about the starting points to compete and that prevents bad results. They are decisions that are forewarned and are not followed and they are goals against.
He didn’t want to apologize to the victims, but he made it clear that his team is with a shorter roster than usual. “We are unbalanced with players coming out of injury, others play many minutes and this is the First Division and it’s not easy. The failures were the first two games, in which we should have scored more points. Now we are in one of the most difficult moments of the season and with a lot of problems coming together,” he said forcefully.
About the referees, who sent Chemi off the field in the third minute, he said: «There are situations where the referees could have acted differently, but we cannot apologize in arbitration. There are decisions that are wrong, but I don’t think the defeat is their fault.”
On the controversial expulsion of the Mazarrón man, he opined: «It is the interpretation that can be given. It may be red, but there are other games where it wasn’t. But there are other, more important decisions. It seems they don’t study the players.”
Source: La Verdad
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